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Install or uninstall Grafana Agent in flow mode on Linux

You can install Grafana Agent in flow mode as a systemd service on Linux.

Install

To install Grafana Agent in flow mode on Linux, run the following commands in a terminal window.

  1. Import the GPG key and add the Grafana package repository.

    Debian-Ubuntu 
    sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
wget -q -O - https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
    RHEL-Fedora 
    wget -q -O gpg.key https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sudo rpm --import gpg.key
echo -e '[grafana]\nname=grafana\nbaseurl=https://rpm.grafana.com\nrepo_gpgcheck=1\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key\nsslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo
    SUSE-openSUSE 
    wget -q -O gpg.key https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sudo rpm --import gpg.key
sudo zypper addrepo https://rpm.grafana.com grafana

  2. Update the repositories.

    Debian-Ubuntu 
    sudo apt-get update
    RHEL-Fedora 
    yum update
    SUSE-openSUSE 
    sudo zypper update

  3. Install Grafana Agent.

    Debian-Ubuntu 
    sudo apt-get install grafana-agent-flow
    RHEL-Fedora 
    sudo dnf install grafana-agent-flow
    SUSE-openSUSE 
    sudo zypper install grafana-agent-flow

Uninstall

To uninstall Grafana Agent on Linux, run the following commands in a terminal window.

  1. Stop the systemd service for Grafana Agent.

    All-distros 
    sudo systemctl stop grafana-agent-flow

  2. Uninstall Grafana Agent.

    Debian-Ubuntu 
    sudo apt-get remove grafana-agent-flow
    RHEL-Fedora 
    sudo dnf remove grafana-agent-flow
    SUSE-openSUSE 
    sudo zypper remove grafana-agent-flow

  3. Optional: Remove the Grafana repository.

    Debian-Ubuntu 
    sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
    RHEL-Fedora 
    sudo rm -i /etc/yum.repos.d/rpm.grafana.repo
    SUSE-openSUSE 
    sudo zypper removerepo grafana

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